The forum has been hacked a couple of times in the past, including once in which IP information and email addresses were leaked. Do you want the possibility that your KYC documents are made public?
Good point. I also hope for those of us who have provided KYC information, that this information is stored offline.
I believe that information was collected to allow theymos to generate 1099s for payments sent. There isn’t any reason to keep this online and certainly no reason to keep it on public facing forum servers.
I mean you're now putting everything on how much you trust theymos. I like the guy, wouldn't say I'd trust him with my full identity though, and the identity of several hundred people.
It will also have touched the Internet at some point and if the data is stored offline even, stuff can't always truly be deleted from drives.
What's theymos' identity, what's Cyrus', what's hilariousandcos? We don't know and we don't need to know.
That doesn't do very much and just opwns the potential for identity fraud.
Also, since Bitcoin is supposed to be anonymous, why would people want others/an admin to know their identity.
Admins DON'T want to get rid of alt accounts, it breaks no forum rules...
Great argument, identity fraud is a serious problem. Probably admins can look into 3rd party identity verification services. I heard there are decentralized ones as well, based on block chain technology.
Make it an option, a lot of people here are readily willing to give away their identity. Just look at those giving away theirs to those ICOs for KYC/AML purposes!
My point is, genuine and trusted users have nothing to hide.
For the ALTs, it has been proven that those who control ALTs are more likely to break forum rules.
I probably have something on here that I wouldn't want relating directly to me, something somewhere...
I have a few alts (none have posted in a year or two, not even sure I still own them all)... But, everyone has one or two alts even if you generate them for specific things (a fresh start maybe).
